About

I work as Full Professor (Prof. Catedrático de Universidad) at the University of Almería and as a mobile robotics consultant for the industry. Member of the ARM TEP197 group, formerly (<2012) member of MAPIR lab at the University of Málaga (Spain), where I also received the European PhD and the M.Sc. Electrical Engineering in 2009 and 2005, respectively.

R&D

My research interests include robotics, computational dynamics, estimation theory and computer vision. Check out some past and current research projects. I also had the pleasure of visiting MRG lab (Oxford, 2008) and LIM lab (La Coruña, 2013).

Complete CV here.

Robotics software development

• Creator and lead developer of MOLA, a modular framework for LiDAR odometry, localization and SLAM.
• Lead developer of MRPT, the Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit, since 2005.
• Author of MVSim, a lightweight multi-vehicle simulator for robotics.
• Author of nanoflann, a header-only C++ library for KD-tree nearest neighbor search.

See the complete list of software projects.

Editorial activity

• 2023-today: Senior Editor (SE) for the area of Localization and Mapping in the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).
• 2017-2022: Associate Editor (AE) and Multimedia Editor (MM) of the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).
• 2015-2022: AE of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
• Conference Editorial Boards: RSS 2011, 2024-2025, ICRA 2014-2015, ICARSC 2015-2018, IROS 2017, 2023, TPC of ETFA 2019, ROBOT2022, ECMR 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023.

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